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by georgeburdell 6 days ago
Hey just wanted to say I think this fills an extremely common niche in the corporate world. There are a couple of teams at my company who switched to some variant of fancy html/javascript and away from either cloud or desktop copies of off-the-shelf presentation or visualization software because they were tired of bugs not being fixed or custom features not getting added

Internal IT fiefdoms everywhere should be very afraid

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Exactly what we've seen in our company. A lot of techies create these awesome web-app presentations which look awesome and wows everybody, but then some poor person that has Claude but not Claude Code (we somehow decided it was only for techies/SWEs) would then be scratching their heads on what to do because some figures are wrong and they need to update it before the very-important-steerco in the afternoon.
Do they not have cowork? This is so exemplary for why Anthropic has been focusing on Cowork and why OpenAI has now copied them with "Codex in ChatGPT App".
Yes, but 1. Cowork burns tokens, lots of them, and tokens are rationed on the Enterprise plans, and 2. You need to know how to prompt it to make the changes. It's often a slow and painful process if all you want to change is a number here and there, or the colour of a box.